I would like to take a moment and apologize for the late delivery of the missing 2017 awards. I had not been involved with Pixoto for the past 2 years. This amazing community of photographers here had motivated me to get involved with the company again and further acquire controlling interests of Pixoto. This process finally completed last month.

I can assure you that any such delays will not occur again in the future.
I have an exciting path moving forward for the company including further improvements to the platform and the introduction of numerous new features.

I want to thank everyone for their patience during this transition and I look forward to your continued participation in the years to come.

Scott, perhaps you have already done this but is it worthwhile emailing all active and non active members (and those that have left in the last couple of years) advising them of the improvements etc. An increase in membership would be beneficial to us all.

We did another release today addressing various small issues. One of them being the share links not showing an image on Facebook. This delayed getting the Abstract awards that were scheduled for today done. We will get caught up tomorrow and assign them tomorrow with Food & Drink

Scott, I'm not sure if this has to do with the issues you have been working on, but I've noticed that I keep getting an error whenever I try to submit a report. If I hit submit again, it works the second time. It's not a huge problem since the second click works, but I thought you might want a heads up.

Hi Renos, accolades have not yet been assigned (for best photographer in each category in 2017). Since your image won #2 place in B&W category (congratulations on that) it will be shown after all #1 place awards (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily). And we only show best 5 awards and those in your case are all for #1 place (year, month, week) so there is no place for your #2 place award on your profile page.

Hey guys, I am having an issue sending out landscapes. I have tried 5 times, but Google's datastore keeps crashing due to the quantity of the awards. It's strange because this has never happened before, but apparently it can't handle the quantity it used to send before. The way we do this hasn't changed in 7 years, so it is strange why it doesn't work now.

I am going to have to rewrite how it is done. This could take a few days and will also impact Animals assignment due to it being the largest category. I will keep you posted.

Hi Judy, thank you for pointing that out. This is actually intentional. I am about to deploy some "experimental" code to solve the duel issue you were having. I don't want to run any awards until I have verified I have not broken anything.

Hi Renos, we did a pretty major release for dueling this weekend and needed it to get settled. October awards went out today. I need to get Landscapes out first, then will get Animals out. I will try and get Landscapes out tomorrow.

Scott, It appears that a majority of your schedule has been missed without revision. I don't recall seeing the 2017 Year End totals ran for several categories (including Transportation). 2017 Badge Assignment
was supposed to occur on "Nov 19 (or before)".

What are the odds that we finally see the 2017 Badge Assignments completed before 2019?

Scott, I'm an IT Project Manager so I guess that's just the PM coming out in me. By Year End Totals I mean running the year end awards. I now see that Transportation was completed back in February 2017. Looking forward to seeing the 2017 Badge Assignments completed.

Hi Dave, I just did a release that will allow their release. This will also prevent any delay in 2018 badges. We will show them on Tuesday. The records have already been created, but I want to send an email notification to everyone that has won one and I need to get that ready.

Hi Scott, I see that the 2017 badges are now on my profile. Thanks for your ongoing work to get Pixoto back in order. I know we've hammered on you a lot for issues recently. Today you get a pat on the back. I appreciate all of the hard work you've put in to this point. It's good to see someone at the helm of Pixoto that cares about the community.

Hi Dave, the badges are based on total awards received for a particular category. Someone could have the #1 image for the year, but win #10 if they have less total awards/points for the category.

Hi Ken, I wasn't able to get everything ready to send out the email. Yes, I still plan on doing it, but I didn't want to let everyone down and not display the badges like I promised so I just displayed them anyways.

- Are you taking the yearly awards out completely since they now don't count for anything but confusion?
No, they have value in that they are image specific. Badges should not be confused with annual awards.

Any follow up on this issue please reply here as I will not be checking here for replies.